The venom towards all things AEC possibly has something to do with seeing the favourite and most treasured rattle run over by one of A E Evans’ Mk III tankers sometime around 1960.
The AEC and its products played an important role during a particularly interesting period in this country’s engineering and commercial history. It would be a great pity not to hear what genuine research engineers from a later period, furnished with the knowledge of 50 and more years of engine technological development make of this failed project. Many times it has been said that the greatest advances come from the failures of others’ efforts. At the end of the day the development of a new engine is probably over 95% science, but the remaining 5% is an Art, and a craft based upon experience; often hard won.